sympathies
\sɛ̃.pa.ti\
The verdict
“sympathies” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sympathie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sympathies · sympathies · French
sympathies · rank #30,389 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,389
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Swann
Nearest frequency peer: Swann (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sympathies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- superpositi…
superposition
69,615 corpus weight
- survivra
survivra
69,614 corpus weight
- Swann
Swann
69,613 corpus weight
- sympathies
sympathies
69,612 corpus weight
- séchée
séchée
69,611 corpus weight
- sénatoriales
sénatoriales
69,610 corpus weight
What this shows « sympathies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sympathies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.pa.ti\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sympathies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around sympathies (IPA \sɛ̃.pa.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,389 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sympathie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sympathies, with forms such as "smypathies", "ssympathies", and "symapthies". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sympathiser", "sympathiques", "sympathie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sympathies, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sympathie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sympathies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes les sympathies d’un milieu ne vont pas nécessairement à la même femme, fût-elle d’une beauté et d’une intelligence aspasiennes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smypathies
- ssympathies
- symapthies
- symmpathies
- sympahties
- sympatheis
- sympathhies
- sympathiess
- sympathise
- sympatihes
- sympatthies
- symppathies
- symptahies
- sypmathies
- syympathies
- ysmpathies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sympathies - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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